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Re:Ask HN: Can I be required to change my resume format to comply with... on Friday May 22, 2020 @01:27PM (#23274628)

Yeah, I overreacted a bit. But I still think it's a bit absurd.

I'd understand more if it was just "we need the most up-to-date copy of your resume".

Re:Ask HN: Can I be required to change my resume format to comply with... on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:49PM (#23263115)

True, perhaps I'm overreacting. I'm just wondering what else a client can make me reformat for their "uniformity standards". My personal website? My haircut?

Ask HN: Can I be required to change my resume format to comply with audit?

Posted by orryx on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:24PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I feel like I'm going crazy here, but I don't have much professional experience so maybe this is commonplace.I'm working as a jr developer at a startup in the healthcare space. Anyway, we were just audited by a big pharma company (I'm still not sure what this process entails, but it's required before we can do business with them). They flagged many of the employee resumes on file as...

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Re:Firefox 75.0 on Friday April 10, 2020 @04:10PM (#22836884)

On a related note, I recently started my first dev job. I found an issue and told one of my mentors "I wonder if something stupid is going on in <insert library name>". She called me out in front of the entire office saying "I don't appreciate you calling our work stupid, we worked really hard on these libraries for years". What? Are most developers this sensitive about wording? I should have said "weird" or "strange" instead of "stupid", but give me a break. I obviously wasn't attacking anyone, it was just a figure of speech and we all have moments of stupidity.